Found Some Pipes at a Cabin in Zion...

[BilboBaggins'Pipe]

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It's gorgeous! Here is the view from BIL's porch.

I cannot imagine a better place to smoke a bowl. My view is on balcony overlooking a plain pleasant city back alley and electrical wires and fence - imagine any alley you saw in an American TV show and that's my view.

 

[peteguy]

That BC is a neat pipe. I was in ZION ten years ago a lost my pipes. I had BC just like it......

 

[Cyxelsid]

That BC is a neat pipe. I was in ZION ten years ago a lost my pipes. I had BC just like it......

Finders keepers...

 

[MilesDavis]

I have no advice per the meerschaum pipes, but the briars would be fun to work on. When I get a pipe like that, I'll remove the old cake, and then take it to the sink with a spray bottle of Awesome! cleaner ($1.25 per bottle at DollarTree) and go to town. I'll use a toothbrush, a brass brush, wet-dry sandpaper, running water and lots of pipe cleaners, and the pipe will get scrubbed inside and out. Sometimes this approach will take off the finish and the color--sometimes not. The stem will get wet sanded with water and Awesome! cleaner. This is all a prelude to the sanding (maybe), re-coloring (maybe), waxing and buffing that would fill a different thread. Good find and good luck!